Providence, Rhode Island: H.H. Brown, 1833. Lacking wraps. [12pp] booklet measuring 5 x 8 inches. A short booklet reproducing a series of abolitionist principles attributed to the Providence Anti-Slavery Society alongside William Lloyd Garrison’s Declaration of Sentiments from the 1833 convention of the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia. This section.....
London, England: Ellerton and Henderson, 1823. Three page document measuring 8 ½ x 13 ¼ inches. A document produced by the Society for Mitigating and Gradually Abolishing the State of Slavery throughout the British Dominions, better known as the Anti-Slavery Society. The group was founded in London in 1823 by.....
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United States: N.p., 1937. Flyer measuring 8 x 10 ½ inches. A flyer advertising the all-Black drama film Sugar Hill Baby (1937). The film, directed by Irwin Franklyn and originally titled Harlem Aristocrat, featured all local actors recruited from the readership of the African-American newspaper The New York Age alongside.....
Evansville, Indiana: N.p., 1920s. Poster on heavy cardstock measuring 14 x 10 ¾ inches. A poster advertising a fundraising drive to preserve Cedar Hill, the home of Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C. The drive was organized by the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, an early civil rights group then.....
Chicago, Illinois: W. B. Conkey Company, 1929. First edition. 8vo, blue cloth without jacket, 280pp. Inscribed by the author on front pastedown. Wear and staining to boards with spine broken and title page partly detached; contents with some dog ears and pencil markings. Asa H. Gordon’s Sketches of Negro Life.....
United States: N.p., c. 1917. Lithographic poster measuring 15 ½ x 11 ¼ inches. A poster celebrating the Eighth Infantry Regiment, Illinois National Guard, during World War I. Text on the poster reads: “Eighth Illinois Regiment Now In France / The Regiment was mustered in the U.S. Volunteer Service.....
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United States: 1936. Lithographic illustration measuring 12 x 13 ¾ inches. Unnumbered, titled and signed recto in pencil, matching handwriting of other known examples. A lithograph by American socialist artist Lydia Gibson (1891–1964). Gibson contributed artworks to radical publications including The Masses, The Liberator, New Masses, and others. This illustration.....
![Item #List3312 Ramrod / 1254 Boylston Street Boston. [Poster]. Art – LGBTQ+ History,...](https://augerdownbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/List3312.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1764794325)
N.p. likely 1980s. Poster on heavy cardstock measuring appx. 13 x 18 inches. A poster featuring artwork by REX (c.1943–2024) for Boston’s Ramrod Bar at 1254 Boylston Street, with REX’s signature printed in the corner of the image. Ramrod opened in 1981 and closed in March of 2020. REX, whose.....
S.I. Department of Public Works, Division of Land Settlement, 1921. Large broadsheet; 19 ½ x 16 ¾; pp. [2]; illustrated with photographs, drawings, and a large map; a few penciled-in, manuscript notes (possibly originally belonging to a potential settler); some age-toning along fold lines; edges a bit unevenly trimmed; in.....
Likely Plumas County, California: January 1860. Single four-page letter measuring 7 ½ x 9 ½ inches. A letter from “Charly” to his wife or fiance, written in January of 1860 from “Ganser [possibly sic] Valley”, likely in Plumas County, California. Located in the Sierra Nevada, Plumas County contained a number.....
California and Oregon: c. 1887–1921. 160 total items. Description of Pacific Coast Outlaws 32pp 8vo in cloth wraps; wraps excellent with some staining; contents very good to excellent with some water damage. Thirteen copies found on OCLC. Two business cards, one with manuscript notes; 106 letters dating 1906 to 1911;.....
New York City: Brown Brothers, c. 1910s. Photograph measuring 5 x 7 ¼ inches, with manuscript caption and Brown Brothers stamps verso. A photo of a nighttime scene in San Francisco’s Chinatown, the oldest and largest in the US; the caption identifies the location as Dupont Street (now Grant Avenue).....
Trail, British Columbia: Hall Printing Co., 1947. Broadside measuring approximately 19 x 19 inches. The Doukhobors are a Spiritual Christian group that originated in the Russian Empire around the late eighteenth century. Persecuted for their pacifism and rejection of the Orthodox Church, the Doukhobors were first removed to present-day Ukraine.....
San Francisco, California: Jimmy Lum Advertising Service, 1950. 107 pp directory measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches. Normal wear, with some manuscript markings on wraps; contents excellent with some markings and wear. The 1950 edition of the San Francisco Chinese Directory, published by the Jimmy Lum Advertising Service. The directory.....
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1904. Seventy-four page booklet measuring 4 ½ x 5 ¼ inches. Damage to wraps with one detached; inside with manuscript (Chinese) markings. A guide compiled by immigration officer John Endicott Gardner for converting between the Gregorian and traditional Chinese calendars for Gregorian years 1849 to.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John Campbell, 1863. Second edition. 8vo, paper wraps, 64pp. Wraps with wear to edges, library stamps, and some manuscript notes; contents excellent to Near Fine. A short booklet by William H. Winder (1808–1879), son of the Brigadier General and Baltimore lawyer of the same name, concerning his 1861.....
West Rupert, Vermont: N.p., c. 1850. Broadside measuring 8 ½ x 15 inches affixed to sheet measuring 10 x 15 inches. A broadside depicting a sign language alphabet invented by Charles Parker, Sr. (1827–1912). This broadside is affixed to a page from an accounting ledger. Parker, a graduate of the.....
Brooklyn, New York: 1964. Twenty-eight page scrapbook measuring 11 x 14 inches. Containing forty-one photographs measuring 5 x 7 inches and smaller and fifty-eight pieces of ephemera, forty-three of which are filled-in entry slips from a contest. The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based on the.....
Los Angeles, California: LAFD, LA Herald Examiner, and LA Times, c. 1970s. Forty-nine photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches with some larger, most with photographers’ stamps verso. Most seem to have been previously affixed to a surface and torn off; some tears and residue intersect with subject. Some with water.....
Washington, D.C. Sheiry, c. 1896. Heavy cardstock measuring approximately 5 x 7 inches. The Washington, D.C. area experienced a rapid increase in population during and in the few decades after the Civil War, and a suburbanization boom followed. Increasing suburbanization was made possible by the expansion of transit networks, including.....
Massachusetts, New York, Maine, Pennsylvania, and others: 1832–1855. Fifty letters with four empty envelopes or covers. Forty-four letters addressed to I.H. Bartlett & Sons: two from the 1830s, eight from the 1840s, and thirty-four from the 1850s. With five letters addressed to Capt. John C. Blanchard (1838, 1839, 1844, and.....
New York City: 1840–1849. Eight letters. A small collection of letters to Boston-based grocers Silas Pierce & Co., sent from New York by steamboat, with notes on covers or stamps reading “Boat Mail” or “Steam Boat Mail”. Five of the letters are from Wyckoff & Scrymser, which was likely owned.....
Kalamazoo, Michigan: August 1844. Single three-page letter measuring 7 ½ x 9 ¾ inches. Folded with very small tears at folds; larger tear at seal intersecting with text. An 1844 letter from a woman who had recently moved to Kalamazoo to a friend in Urbana, Ohio. The writer describes Kalamazoo.....
Nebraska and Minnesota: multiple publishers, 1930s–1960s. Ten posters, mainly measuring approximately 14 x 21 ½ inches, with some smaller. Territory bands were dance bands that toured around particular regions of the US. Usually swing or big band jazz groups, they mostly covered popular songs, playing in smaller cities and towns.....
Whitehall, New York: April 1827. Single one-page letter measuring 8 x 9 ½ inches. A letter from [possibly William] Van Benthuysen in Whitehall, New York, to future Secretary of State William L. Marcy, then State Comptroller, accepting an appointment. The appointment is unspecified, but likely related to the Champlain Canal;.....